Mail catching and delivering frame.



No. 666,:0L' Patented Ian. l5, I901. F". c. KILBY.

MAIL GATGHING AND DELIVERING FRAME.

(Application filed Oct. 80, 1900.)

(No Model.)

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NITE STATES PATENT OFFICE.

FRANCIS O. KILBY, OF RICHMOND, MISSOURI, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALF TO BERNHARD GUSTAV SOHEFFLER, OF SAME PLACE.

MAIL CATCHING AND DELIVERING FRAME.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 666.101, dated January 15, 1901.

Application filed October 30, 1900. Serial No. 34,928. (No odel.)

lb aZZ whom it may concern.- in opposite directions from the upper rod 9 Be it known that I, FRANCIS O. KILBY, a are arms 11 12, and extending in opposite dicitizen of the United States, and a resident of rections from the lower bar are arms 13 14. Richmond, in the county of Ray and State of The turn-table is held in proper position 5 Missouri, have invented a new and Improved for catching or delivering mail-bags by means Mail Catching and Delivering Frame, of of a spring-pressed latch or bolt 15, mounted which the following is a full, clear, and exact to slide on the under side of the bar 8 and description. adapted to engage in a notch formed in the This invention relates to improvements in periphery of the plate 3. A notch may also IO devices for catching mail-bags at a station be formed in said plate 3 to receive the bolt from a passing train and for delivering mailwhen the turn-table is rotated to bring the bags to the passing train; and the object is bag over the steps 2. A cord 16 connects with to provide a device of this character that shall the locking-bolt, and upon a downward pull be simple in construction and not liable to on this cord 16 the bolt will be removed from 15 get out of order. its locking engagement with the plate 3.

I will describe a mail catching and deliver- Carried by the mail-car is an angle-arm 17 ing frame embodying my invention and then designed to pass between the bars 9 and 10, point out the novel features in the appended as indicated in Fig. 1. This angle-arm 17 has claims. oppositely-extended arms 18 and 19. The 20 Reference is to be had to the accompanying angle-arm 17 has swinging connection 20 with drawings, forminga part of this specification, the car and when not in use may be drawn in which similar characters of reference indiupward by means of a rope 21, attached to cate corresponding parts in all the figures. said arm and extended over a pulley 22 and Figure 1 is a side elevation of a mail-bag into the car. 25 catching and delivering frame embodying my Designed to be attached to the mail-bag is invention. Fig. 2 is an elevation at right a ring 23. This ring 23 at its upper portion angles to Fig. 1. Fig. 3 is a plan view, and and at the inner side has a notch 24, designed Fig. 4 shows a catching-ring designed to be to receive a rib 25 on the top of the arm with attached to a mail-bag. which the ring is connected, it being under- 30 Referring to the drawings, 1 designates a stood that each of the arms is provided with post designed to be arranged at or nearastaa rib 25. The purpose of this is to hold the tion, and connecting with the lower portion ring from turning relatively to the arm. of the post are steps 2. Rigidly attached to In operation, assuming the car to be movthe post at a proper height is a circular plate ing in the direction indicated by the arrow in 5 3, upon which a turn-table 4 is designed to Fig. 2, the mail-bag to be delivered from the rotate. This turn table 4 has an opening car is hung on the arm 19. Then as the mail- .through which the post 1 passes, and to-rebag reaches the crane the arm 14, carried by duce the friction to a minimum I provide said the crane, will enter the ring 23, and as the turn-table with rollers 5, which engage upon car proceeds the arm 19 will pass within the 40 the plate 3. These parts 3 and 4 may be proring, allowing the bag to drop and be suspendtected from rain or snow by means of a coved by the arm 14. If the bag is to be delivering 6, attached to the turn-table. This covered to the car, it is to be supported by the ering 6 is made conical, and to prevent the arm 11. Then the arm 18, carried by the car, entrance of rain or snow between its upper will enter the ring and remove it from said 45 end and the post a hood 7 is attached to the arm 11. When the car is moving in the oppost and extends over the upper end of said posite direction, the arrangement, of course, covering 6. will be reversed.

Extended outward from the turn-table is a Having thus described my invention, I bar 8, from the end of which, at the upper claim as new and desire to secure by Letters I00 50 and lower sides, rods 9 10 extend. These rods Patent- 9 and 10 are slightly divergent, and extending 1. A mail-bag catching and delivering device, comprisinga post, a turn-table mounted on said post, upper and lower arms extended in opposite directions and supported by the turn-table, the said arms having ribs on the upper side, a ring having a notch to receive a rib, means for locking the turn-table as ad"- justed, and a bag-supporting arm adapted to be attached toa car,substanti-ally as specified.

2. A mail-bag catching and delivering device, comprising a post, a plate attached to said post, a turn-table mounted to rotate axially of the post and bearing on said plate, a bar extended from the turn-table, rods ex,- tended forward from said bar at the upper and lower sides, arms extended in opposite directions from each of said rods, an anglearm having swinging connection with a car, and arms extended in opposite directions from said angle-arm, substantially as specified.

adapted for engagement with the bag and having a notch to receive the rib of an arm, 0 substantially as specified.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in the presence of two subscribing Witnesses.

. FRANCIS OJKILBY. Witnesses: WILLIAM C. PAT'roN, HIRAM W. WATKINS. 

